One year after it was established with the objective of equipping female entrepreneurs in Region Four with the knowledge, skills and support to develop sustainable businesses, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Network (WENET) is looking to the wider corporate s community to help keep alive the ideal of strengthening the entrepreneurial base among Guyanese women.
WENET has its origins in an initiative by the internationally-known oil company Exxon-Mobil, which provided the funding for the creation of the project. At the inception, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) also took an interest in the project.
Kendra Borutski, the Canadian national and Youth Challenge Initiative (YCI) functionary who currently serves as WENET’s project coordinator, told Stabroek Business that over the
